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Cryonics Intelligence Test Responses
Introduction On 06 May, 2012 responses were solicited to what was termed The Cryonics Intelligence Test which was posted here on Chronosphere (see: http://wp.me/p1sGcr-vV). Two people responded to this public request to “take the test” and provide input on possible … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alexander McLin, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain ischemia, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryonics intelligence test, Gerald Monroe, human cryopreservation, ischemia, Jordan Sparks, Mark Plus, Max More, mike darwin, neuropreservation
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Myth and Memory in Cryonics
By Mike Darwin Steven B. Harris, M.D. In September of 1988, Steve Harris, M.D., published an essay entitled The Day the Earth Stood Still: Cryonics and the Resurrection of the Mythic Hero. It was one of his best in a … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culture & Propaganda, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, BACS, Bay area Cryonics Society, Bill Moyers, body freezing, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, head freezing, Inc., Joseph Campbell, Many are Cold But Few Are Frozen, mike darwin, suspended animation, The Dead Ant Heap, The Power of Myth, The return of the krell Machine, The Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Dead, Trans Time, Will Cryonics Work
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Almax Cryostat Post-Manufacturing Preparation Procedure STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES (With Specimen Contract & Purchase Order)
Credits: Ben Best, Andy Zawacki, Mike Darwin Adapted from Source Document: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/88919930/Cryostat-Preparation—Cryonics-Institute PURPOSE: To detail the procedures used for set-up and final preparation of Almax fiberglass-composite resin long-term patient care cryostats. This standard operating procedure (SOP) (aka Best Practices) details … Continue reading
Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 4
Screening for the Risk of Deanimation The term “screening” is used in medicine to describe routine examinations or diagnostic procedures of a defined group of individuals to identify diseases or risk factors for same at an early stage. Screening … Continue reading
Posted in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine
Tagged .MRI scan, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, Holter monitoring, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 3
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Removing a Central Objection to Cryonics In case you missed it, what I just said in that slim paragraph at the end of the preceding … Continue reading
Posted in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine
Tagged .MRI scan, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, Holter monitoring, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 2
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Ischemia: The Problem of “Long Down Time” Almost every cryonicist I’ve ever spoken with envisions his cryopreservation will occur under ideal circumstances. He … Continue reading
Posted in Gerontology, Medicine
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan. MRI scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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Your Picture Won’t Be Hanging Here?
Reception area of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside, CA in April of 1987. The photos above the refreshments cart were of some of the patients in Alcor’s care at that time. Sometimes we get defeated by technology, … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culture & Propaganda, Philosophy
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, body freezing, brain cryopreservation, cryobiology, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopatient, head freezing, Max More, mike darwin, neuropreservation, suspended animation
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Bon Voyage, Fred Chamberlain
By Mike Darwin Me and Mei Lei, settling down after dinner and a peek at the heart of the time machine, which was then kept in a shed in back of the the Chamberlains’ home in La Crescenta, in 1973. … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics Biography, Cryonics History
Tagged Alcor Foundation, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Bioquagmire, brain cryopreservation, brain cryopreservatioon, brain freezing, CBeRev.org, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryostasis, Fred Chamberlain, Frederick Rockwell Chamberlain, head freezing, III, Jr., Life Quest, LifeNaut.com, Linda Chamberlain, Linda Lee Chamberlain, mike darwin, Mindfiles, neuropreservation, Star Pebble, Terasem
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i Birth of a NeoInsurgent Cryonicst
By CryoX Illustrations by Mike Darwin This is a work of fiction {or is it?} We Froze the First Fly. Great title. I could have written it. I should have written it. I’m an insect endocrinologist. This futon in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cryobiology, Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culturomics, Philosophy
Tagged arthur rowe, bathhouse, body freezing, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryobiology, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryonics ethics, cryonics morality, drosophila, freezing, frozen flies, frozen fruit flies, gay men, mike darwin, neuropreservation, proline, science fair, susan boyle, suspended animation
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